People of Painswick & environs!
THIS THURS 12 March Painswick Centre 7PM
I'll be in conversation wt MADELEINE BUNTING abt ‘DADLAND & fathers & memoir & secrets & discoveries & love & madness & the many curious things that happen when you write a memoir.
DADLAND won the Costa Prize in 2016
Come!
Personal favourites, with a strong environmental bias:
Beastly - @keggiec.bsky.social
Islands of Abandonment - @calflyn.bsky.social
The Brilliant Abyss - @helenscales.bsky.social
The Sixth Extinction - @elizkolbert.bsky.social
Good taste. Great books, including mine! Thank you for posting.
In this episode, journalist and producer Julius Purcell explores the remarkable return of #wolves to #Germany after 150 years of extirpation. Hear how Germany is learning to coexist with these iconic predators, the challenges that remain, and why the success of the wolf’s comeback is so significant.
Thank you!
I just ordered books written by these authors : @madelineostrander.bsky.social @keggiec.bsky.social @richardconniff.bsky.social ‘Currently reading @helenscales.bsky.social ‘s What the Wild Sea can be ! Embarking on an intense nature writing reading journey ! Yay!
Lord! It’s really good! Hah!
My dad and Pat Highsmith were good friends in 1953 inTrieste where he was head of security in the postwar mess btwn Italy and Yugoslavia and McCarthy.
She liked him. Maybe for his knowledge on silent killing and small boats. And of corse his Irish charisma.
Finally! This is an historic win for all those who have spent decades trying to get the govt to act.
Non-compliance is expected to be high so effective monitoring & robust enforcement must follow.
Defra press release + commentary from me ⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/10/p...
Met them at dinner in the early days of their odyssey. They’d just been GIVEN a house with 18 acres of land! I remember her faux naive all-in-a-daze response to their good fortune. Conversation was 1-way & hard work. I was asked to interview RW at a literary festival for her second book & declined.
Three weeks to publication day and I couldn't be more thrilled with this quote from the wonderful @keggiec.bsky.social
Can’t wait to chat with brilliant writer, fierce advocate for all the animals and dear friend @keggiec.bsky.social
@helenscales.bsky.social
I am talking to the great marine biologist & wonderful writer Helen Scales about What The Wild Seas Can Be tomorrow, Salisbury Cathedral, 7.30pm. She is fascinating about the most important thing on the planet, the sea.
www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/arrangements...
Brilliant! Thanks!
HOW TO REWILD: A Practical Manual from Underhill Wood Nature Reserve for One to Fifty Acres by Jonathan Thomson. It’s brilliant, incredibly practical with great colour photographs & some excellent & very clear illustrations by myself! Available from FOLDE Dorset.
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what the Planning & Infrastructure will mean, if it becomes law. Every single SSSI in England will lose its protected status, as well as non-SSSI sites for protected species.
Our beautiful home of 23 years, Rose Bower, is for sale. The garden, chalk stream and woods are breathtakingly lovely. We hope to pass it on to someone who will love it, & the garden’s inhabitants, as much as we have. Listed with Myddleton & Major Estate Agents myddeltonmajor.co.uk/property/lit...
Happy publication @WriterHannahBT So happy to endorse this brave and brilliant book. “This book might make you scream…” @eandtbooks
The most inspiring, uplifting and heart warming night at the Whitley Awards where global grass roots conservation projects are rewarded and celebrated. An evening of hope and beautiful collaborations of communities who work to protect native species. Please support the Whitley Fund for Nature.
🪶#NatureNeedsYou tells the compelling story of how @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK.
'The swifts are lucky to have Hannah fighting their corner' ZAC GOLDSMITH
'A voice for nature' EMMA MARSH, RSPB
'Hannah is a hero of our times' @keggiec.bsky.social
Don’t wash out your peanut butter jar. Leave it in the bushes for small critters to lick clean. They will love it!
Yes, there’s a winterbourne chalk stream but we never seen mink. Maybe polecat tho. One once ran over my foot. Oh dear, as I type I can hear something dying….
No, not twisted, too squidgy, not fox.
I wrote this for Time magazine for Earth Day:
Animals Can Save Us - If We Let Them
time.com/6272815/anim...
Yes! Lovely of you to think if him Roger! Thank you.
My writing shed view this morning. Blossom glory.
Morning all, 79,000 signatures down, 21,000 to go!
We've got six weeks left to get this petition to ban driven grouse shooting - a sport that has pushed hen harriers and golden eagles to the brink of extinction in these islands - over the line.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
